abnormal afp

I was on this board in 2005 with my first child who had a 1 in 211 chance of having Downs. He is fine really! Now my third child has a 1 in 178 risk of having Downs.The doctor was kind of rude about it! But I decided to just go ahead with the pregnancy. I work with these kids so I know how terrific they can be.

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Interesting that you'd have two positive screens. I wonder if it is something about your body chemistry? Anyway, congratulations. I can assure you as someone who lives with one of "these kids" you are right, she is terrific. But she can be a little devil too, lol!

We actually have similar experiences! I was on this board back in 2006 because I had a positive screen for my daughter at 1 in 132. After our ultrasound and 2 hard markers, our risk was upped to 1 in 2. My daughter did have down syndrome.

With this pregnancy they found an echogenic focus on the heart, which is a really soft marker for down syndrome. Because of this I opted for the quad screen, and got a positive screen of 1 in 25. I declined the amnio this time around, having been through this once before. It's a double edges sword because I heard it is really rare to have more then one child with down syndrome, but also it does increase your odds to 1% chance automatically.

So we are waiting it out, and whatever the outcome, I know it will be fine. It's definetly different this time, as with my first daughter we did do the amnio, so we were prepared for the diagnosis at her birth. This time I have no idea what to expect!